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Portable Appliance Testing
is the test which must be carried
out on essentially anything with a
plug that employees or customers
will be using to comply with
health and safety regulations.
When people work with
electrical appliances,
Health and safety regulations
say the appliance must be safe.
Testing should be carried out at
regular intervals to ensure
continual safety; the period of
which depending on both the type
of appliance and the environment
it is used in.
Many people will have seen
evidence of portable applaince
testing in the little labels stuck
to power cables around their
offices.
Portable Appliance Testing is
often shortened to the acronym
PAT, although sometimes people use
the slightly redundant term PAT
Testing.
